Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

[cochins1088]

I took out the incubators and I just started collecting eggs for hatching. I can't wait for chicks again!

It's been months since my last hatch.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I took out the incubators and I just started collecting eggs for hatching. I can't wait for chicks again!

It's been months since my last hatch.

 

[rbaker0345]

Be careful with the Blu-Kote. I almost killed my cat with it. He was a monorchid and had to have abdominal surgery to be neutered and he started licking his wound on a saturday morning when I couldn't get an elizabethan collar for him until Monday. I went through my medicine cabinet looking for something that I thought would taste awful enough to keep him from licking it and I came up with the Blue Kote. I sprayed it on him and he licked it anyway. It caused mouth and stomach ulcers and a UTI. Had to put him on clindamycin and bathe him with dawn. He's okay now but I felt like such a moron. It says right on the can "For use on Horses, Dogs and Livestock DO NOT USE ON CATS".

The moral of my story: Keep the Blue Kote away from your cat.

 

[dolfi]

Be careful with the Blu-Kote.  I almost killed my cat with it.  He was a monorchid and had to have abdominal surgery to be neutered and he started licking his wound on a saturday morning when I couldn't get an elizabethan collar for him until Monday.  I went through my medicine cabinet  looking for something that I thought would taste awful enough to keep him from licking it and I came up with the Blue Kote.  I sprayed it on him and he licked it anyway.  It caused mouth and stomach ulcers and a UTI.  Had to put him on clindamycin and bathe him with dawn.  He's okay now but I felt like such a moron.  It says right on the can "For use on Horses, Dogs and Livestock DO NOT USE ON CATS".

The moral of my story:  Keep the Blue Kote away from your cat.

lol we learn from experience

 

[rbaker0345]

Oh my god, the poor guy. His stomach is still blue, the pigment won't come out. He looks like a punk-rock kitty. I will never forgive myself. I definitely learned a lesson.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Be careful with the Blu-Kote. I almost killed my cat with it. He was a monorchid and had to have abdominal surgery to be neutered and he started licking his wound on a saturday morning when I couldn't get an elizabethan collar for him until Monday. I went through my medicine cabinet looking for something that I thought would taste awful enough to keep him from licking it and I came up with the Blue Kote. I sprayed it on him and he licked it anyway. It caused mouth and stomach ulcers and a UTI. Had to put him on clindamycin and bathe him with dawn. He's okay now but I felt like such a moron. It says right on the can "For use on Horses, Dogs and Livestock DO NOT USE ON CATS".

The moral of my story: Keep the Blue Kote away from your cat.

Good Grief!!! I only got it for chicken boo boos if needed and if they are red/blood and get pecked on since they are so cooped up, I saw the price and had to grab it.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Replacement Heat Element & Insulators - 250 Watt - for Cabinet Egg Incubator (trying to figure out how these work) $22.99 ANYONE know how safe these are? and how used? I am going to keep trying to research heat options LOL


http://www.efowl.com/Incubator_Heat_Element_Insulators_250_Watt_p/6714.htm

 

[ozexpat]

i have thought about them also

are you building a cabinet? its about time

 

[R2elk]

Replacement Heat Element & Insulators - 250 Watt - for Cabinet Egg Incubator (trying to figure out how these work) $22.99 ANYONE know how safe these are? and how used? I am going to keep trying to research heat options LOL


http://www.efowl.com/Incubator_Heat_Element_Insulators_250_Watt_p/6714.htm

Hi Sally,

Look through the manuals on this page

https://www.gqfmfg.com/store/instructionscabinet.asp

Here is the heating element used in cabinet incubators for $18.66.

http://www.gqfmfg.com/store/comersus_viewItem.asp?idProduct=115

and the Fan, motor and bracket to put behind it.

http://www.gqfmfg.com/store/comersus_viewItem.asp?idProduct=112#

Of course you will need a controller with a sensor to maintain the proper temperature.

If you build the cabinet, you can buy all of the parts from GQF to make it just like the commercial cabinets.

http://www.gqfmfg.com/store/comersus_listItems.asp?idCategory=49&orderBy=sku

Good luck,
Bob

 

[Sally Sunshine]

i have thought about them also

are you building a cabinet? its about time

yes we are, I have so many images and notes gathered I am narrowing it down, I know for a FACT that we will use the wafer thermostat, but I am actually reading right now trying to figure out the usefulness of a double wafer system and its NOT making any sense to me why GFQ's and other cabinets use two basically side by side, so I am reading and reading but coming up empty, I will check R2elks links as well!


I am torn between the heat element insulator type vs bulbs.....

I think its the open wire issue with the old schoolinsulators that scare me LOL if I get past that I should be ok! ha ha ha